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Ice Cube, AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)

Label: Priority

A$AP Yams: “It really just opened my mind to the whole revolutionary rap. I wasn’t really big on that shit back in the day, but I really fuck with it, and the way Cube did it like with the gangster shit, and it sounded right, you feel me? It was just, like that shit make me want to go the police station after that, you feel me? It just gets you hyped up. It was really just going off on that whole album. Like, ‘Fuck it. I’m young, I’m getting money, I’m out here. Fuck America.’

“On top of that, it really opens your eyes to the problems we really have in America with white folks and the minorities as well. All that shit. He was just touching on a lot of stuff motherfuckers weren’t touching at that time.”